Inside WORLD : Bombing of the Copernic Street: Hassan Diab arrived in France

A 61-year-old Hassan Diab has hardly any resemblance to the sketch of the bomber mustache that would have committed 3 October 1980 bombing near the synagogue in the rue Copernic in Paris, killing four people and many injured. The Canadian of Lebanese origin, suspected by the French courts have crafted and planted the bomb, was the seriousness of the university he was in Ottawa until his arrest on November 13, 2008. Two judges Paris had then issued an international arrest warrant. The charges were based on a sketch and handwriting analysis comparing the writing of the suspect that Hassan Diab.

It took six years for the extradition of France is satisfied. Saturday, November 15, Hassan Diab arrived at Roissy - Charles de Gaulle, after being released the day before the French authorities in Montreal. Supported by the police, the Lebanese-Canadian had to be immediately transported to the courthouse in Paris to be presented to a judge to terrorism that he be notified of the charges against him.

Professor of Sociology

Sociology professor is suspected by French investigators to have belonged to the terrorist group Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-Special Operations (PFLP-OS) in France have used a false passport in the name of Cyprus Alexander Panadryu, including signing a hotel registration form and buy the bike that would have to carry the bomb. Himself a victim of a homonym, the name is very common in Lebanon and in Beirut says it was not in Paris the night of the attack. "I have never belonged to any Palestinian organization nor campaigned politically," he has already said.

Contesting extradition proceedings after his arrest in 2008, Hassan Diab had been released in March 2009, while being placed under judicial supervision with electronic bracelet. In June 2011, a court had finally allowed his extradition, but Mr. Diab had appealed the extradition order signed by the Canadian Minister of Justice in April 2012. It lost in May, he has exhausted all legal remedies in Canada, including the Supreme Court, which refused to take up his case on November 12 .

"Kafkaesque nightmare"

"It is a day very sad for me, my family, supporters, and the state are the Canadian laws matièred'extradition" responded Hassan Diab, shortly after the decision of the Canadian Supreme Court in a letter read by his lawyer. "I live in a Kafkaesque nightmare for over six years, struggling against false allegations against me, enduring detention, severe conditions of release, the loss of my job and a huge stress for my family. I will never give up and I keep hoping to return to my home in Canada to be reunited with my wife and children, "he added in a statement.

Little is known about the man except that he was born in Lebanon to Palestinian parents and he left to pursue studies in the United States, with his first wife. He earned a degree in sociology at Syracuse University before emigrating to Canada in 1987. He then acquired Canadian citizenship while retaining that of Lebanon. It would also have stayed in Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom, according to some newspapers. In 1997, Rania Tfaily, one of his students has since become a university professor, became his companion. They later married according to Muslim tradition. Together they had a daughter who is now two and his wife, who never stopped supporting it, is expecting a second child.